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  • Tapeworms, Lice, and Prions

    A compendium of unpleasant infections

    by Prof David Grove ...
    An extraordinary array of infectious agents affects humans; from worms, arthopods, and fungi to bacteria, viruses, and prions. In this compendium of the curious and fascinating organisms that cause disease, including Legionnaire's disease, mumps, CJD, and chlamydia, David I. Grove provides a lively, fact-filled account of the nature of each organism, their life cycle, the ingenious ways in which ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Explaining Criminal Careers

    Implications for Justice Policy

    by Dr John F. MacLeod, Dr Peter Grove, Prof David Farrington ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple but influential theory of crime, conviction and reconviction. The assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

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  • Smallpox, Syphilis and Salvation: Medical breakthroughs that changed the world

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  • In Search of Cell History

    The Evolution of Life's Building Blocks

    by Franklin M. Harold ...
    This comprehensive history of cell evolution "deftly discusses the definition of life" as well as cellular organization, classification and more ( San Francisco Book Review).The origin of cells remains one of the most fundamental mysteries in biology, one that has spawned a large body of research and debate over the past two decades. With In Search of Cell History, Franklin M. Harold offers a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Digital Dice

    Computational Solutions to Practical Probability Problems (New in Paperback)

    by Paul J. Nahin ...
    Series series Princeton Puzzlers
    Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in which a random-number generator simulates a physical process, such as a million rolls of a pair of dice. This is what Digital Dice is all about: how to get numerical answers to difficult probability ... Read more

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  • The Cell

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Terence Allen, Graham Cowling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    All living things on Earth are composed of cells. A cell is the simplest unit of a self-contained living organism, and the vast majority of life on Earth consists of single-celled microbes, mostly bacteria. These consist of a simple 'prokaryotic' cell, with no nucleus. The bodies of more complex plants and animals consist of billions of 'eukaryotic' cells, of varying kinds, adapted to fill ... Read more

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  • Fundamental Medical Mycology

    by Errol Reiss, H. Jean Shadomy, G. Marshall Lyon ...
    Medical mycology deals with those infections in humans, and animals resulting from pathogenic fungi. As a separate discipline, the concepts, methods, diagnosis, and treatment of fungal diseases of humans are specific. Incorporating the very latest information concerning this area of vital interest to research and clinical microbiologists,Fundamental Medical Mycology balances clinical and ... Read more

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  • Community Ecology

    Analytical Methods Using R and Excel

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